A wealth of research already exists exploring the growing
impact of English as an academic language within the European higher education
community. To date, such research primarily studies public manifestations of
language ...

Language is the eye of society, without it we could very ill signify our wants for
our own relief, and by no means could communicate our knowledge, for the
amusement or amendment of our fellow creatures; and therefore ...

From the mid-twentieth century onwards, three parallel developments in language studies have
contributed to shaping the current landscape in Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP). Firstly,
discourse analysis has become ...

The historical text Caithreim Thoirdhealbhaigh has received
relatively little linguistic or textual attention in spite of the fact that
Standish Hayes O'Grady's edition of the text was made available
over eighty years ...

Although the use of corpus data in language learning is a steadily growing research area, direct access to corpora by teachers and learners and the use of the data in the classroom are developing slowly. This paper explores ...

Financier, philanthropist and economist George Soros is not the first to have
used or derived the notion of reflexivity (for example, Anthony Giddens, Ulrich
Beck and others have found it useful in their work).What is ...

This research investigates the construction of gender identity in the discourse of pregnancy advice literature. It focuses in particular on uncovering the societal power asymmetries and hierarchies which repress and control ...

This work proposes the sourcing of a theology of music with particular reference to liturgical music developments in the Irish Catholic church since the Second Vatican Council. In doing so, it is confronted by two primary ...

Essentially, the tale was trivial. A scoundrel named Siobharan stole a cockerel,
which had been bought at a fair by Father Aengus. A local court quickly
denounced the theft and a warrant for his arrest was promptly issued. ...

This article examines the role of social/poverty impact assessment in con -tributing to the shaping of policy at a local level in Ireland. In doing so, it briefly describes the broader impact assessment landscape ...

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) are still in their infancy on the surface they look like the necessary
silver bullet to provide alternate pathways to education. However, when completion rates and retention
figures ...

.This article analyses David Monahan’s photographic portrait series of over 120 people before emigrating from post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, entitled ‘Leaving Dublin’. As a digital series that circulates across multiple media ...

On the 20th
anniversary of the introduction of the Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996 in Ireland,
this paper provides a descriptive account of the ancillary relief scheme
applied in the jurisdiction on divorce and its critics. ...

McCutcheon, Paul J(Centre for Criminal Justice, University of Limerick, 1997)

Until the beginning of the 1990s reform of the substantive criminal law has not been a
legislative priority. As a result the law consisted of an amalgam of common law and
statutory provisions. The principles of liability ...